West Virginia voting History

West Virginia

ELECTORAL VOTES

2016 ELECTION

2010 Census Reapportionment: West Virginia will remain at 5 electoral ballots through the 2020 presidential election.

Western Virginia, which seceded from Virginia (which itself had seceded through the Union) throughout the Civil War, became its own condition in June 1863. It and Nevada had been the sole says accepted during the war, although Kansas became a situation in early 1861, just a couple of months prior to the hostilities started. Even though the state has gone Republican in the last 4 elections, including a blowout 62per cent to 36percent win by Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in 2012, hawaii is mostly Democratic during the neighborhood and state levels. Associated with presidential elections from statehood through 2012, voters moved Democratic 20 out of 38 times. A lot of this back-and-forth (at the least in recent record) may be related to the shifting views associated with the big blue-collar vote within the condition.

RECENT ELECTIONS

WEST VIRGINIA ELECTORAL UNIVERSITY VOTES

Colored bars represent the winning candidate’s party. For functions aside from Democratic or Republican, yellow is used. 2016 is colored green until following the election.